Darryl Okahata <darrylo(a)sr.hp.com&gt; writes: > Ben's complaint is not about MIME and/or the MIME encoding > (e.g., base64 -- as I and others mistakenly inferred), but that the MIME > type and subtype are typically "application/octet-stream", which his > mailreader can't (easily) handle (it's marked as an attachment, and the > text is not displayed to the user). O.K. We've been over this issue before. I don't like this behavior either. Be careful how you go about `fixing' this as there are reasons for why it behaves as it does. ... > Ben also suggests that Kyle's patchbot be modified to automatically > translate incoming application/octet-stream to text/plain (if > appropriate). Please don't do this unless you have verified that this won't break patches that contain multibyte characters.